Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although they found that low cholesterol does not greatly change the life expectancy for low-risk people, the Harvard researchers said that lower cholesterol levels are healthful. "We hope this information isn't misused, that people don't say, 'Oh, cholesterol doesn't matter' and eat recklessly," Taylor said...
Governor Michael S. Dukakis told state officials and members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation yesterday that Congress had performed a ``miracle'' in saving the $87.9 billion bill. The bill authorizes federal funding to widen and lower Boston's Central Artery and to dig a third harbor tunnel that would accommodate 40,000 cars daily...
While the $87.9 billion package faces some criticism in Boston, one of the more controversial issues will be whether the current plan to lower the Central Artery will destroy North End neighborhoods in Boston...
...central bankers to stabilize the currency. Global money traders sent the dollar reeling because they expected that the currency might have to fall further if the U.S. is to slash its trade deficit. But sentiment is rising in Washington that protectionism is preferable to watching the dollar sink ever lower. Though the U.S. and Japan may not yet be engaged in a full-scale trade war, what used to be a heated rivalry between friends has now moved on to a new and potentially perilous phase...
After initially asking for an independent counsel to look into his affairs and clear his name, Deaver blocked his indictment for three weeks by challenging the constitutionality of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which provides for such special prosecutors. Two lower courts dismissed his arguments, and Deaver's final appeal was turned down by Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist just hours before the grand jury returned the bill against...